Researchers

Dr Luis Medina Cordova is the Principal Investigator of the BA/Leverhulme-funded research project behind Viral Literature: Latin America. An expert on contemporary Ecuadorian literature and Latin American literature in Spanish, since the start of the pandemic in 2020, he has studied the use by writers across Latin America of social media and other digital platforms to narrate the health crisis in real-time; with Andrea Espinoza Carvajal (University of Exeter), he co-edited a collection of essays on pandemic narratives in Latin America. 

 


Sebastian Bustamante-Brauning is a research associate in the BA/Leverhulme-funded research project behind Viral Literature: Latin America. He is also a South West & Wales Doctoral Training Partnership PhD candidate at the University of Bristol & University of Exeter researching digital memory spaces in Latin America. He has recently worked as the Assistant Director of the Essex Collection of Art from Latin America. His research interests include photography, museology, art history, digital heritage, human rights and memory in Latin America and the interstices between these areas. 

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